It’s now apparent that Francis Coppola’s Megalopolis won’t land a distribution deal with the deep-pocketed Focus Features or Searchlight teams, who could theoretically pay for a big award-season campaign. He’s either going to cut a deal with Neon or A24 or someone in that realm or (it’s possible) self-distribute. Either way the general industry consensus is that Megalopolis is a loss-leader.
